Bioengineering innovations in osteoarthritis treatment
- Submission status
- Open
- Submission deadline
Osteoarthritis is a complex, degenerative joint disease and a leading cause for disability in adults, for which there is no curative treatment. This collection seeks submissions related to bioengineering approaches in the treatment of osteoarthritis. Examples of such approaches include, but are not limited to, intraarticular controlled/stimuli-responsive release systems, nanotechnologies for targeted drug delivery, bioengineered lubricants, cellular therapeutics, regenerative engineering approaches for joint tissues, immuno- and/or neuro-modulation strategies, and metabolic reprogramming. Advances in in-vitro models to gain mechanistic insights and inform/screen treatment strategies are also within the scope of this collection.
Editors
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Silviya P Zustiak, PhD
Saint Louis University, USA
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Blanka Sharma, PhD
University of Florida, USA
The Collection will publish original research Articles, Reviews, Perspectives and Comments (full details on content types can be found here). Papers will be published in npj Biomedical Innovations as soon as they are accepted and then collected together and promoted on the Collection homepage. All Guest Edited Collections are associated with a call for papers and are managed by one or more of our Editorial Board Members and the journal's Editors.
This Collection welcomes submissions from all authors – and not by invitation only – on the condition that the manuscripts fall within the scope of the Collection and of npj Biomedical Innovations more generally. See our editorial process page for more details.
All submissions are subject to the same peer review process and editorial standards as regular npj Biomedical Innovations articles, including the journal’s policy on competing interests. The Guest Editors have no competing interests with the submissions, which they handle through the peer-review process. The peer review of any submissions for which the Guest Editors have competing interests is handled by another Editorial Board Member who has no competing interests. See our Collections guidelines for more details.
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